This fun hotel chain focuses its locations on cities with nearby colleges or universities. For this Palo Alto locale, that’s Stanford University—and Reese Witherspoon was one of the graduates appearing on their rotating collection of keycards that feature the student ID card of famous alumni.
When checking into a hotel, you typically assess the lobby and the overall vibe of the experience. The next thing that keys you into how your stay will go? Well, it’s the key itself. While we’ve moved from the old-school oval plastic dangler to the more typical credit card-like key, some hotels are making the best of an opportunity to create an unusual and creative stay with the way that you enter your room. For one thing, even if you stick with the card key, you can still incorporate an interesting design into it. But we really love keys that are in the shapes of other things (like tiny cowboy boots or handmade leather tassel keychains) for a moment that makes you pause and appreciate the extra effort made by the hotel. Here are our top 14 picks of cool hotel keys in the U.S.
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